Nabataea

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

An ancient kingdom of southwest Asia in present-day Jordan, flourishing from the fourth century B.C. to A.D. 106, when it was conquered by Rome. Petra was its capital.

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Barred from teaching at King Saud University in 2001, the scholar has examined the situation of Nabataea, a kingdom that at the beginning of the Christian era included parts of modern-day Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and had its capital in Petra.

Malchus of Nabataea lost the bitumen, but nothing else; in return for what Octavian saw as leniency, Malchus was to watch the Egyptian fleets in the Sinus Arabicus and deal with any unusual activity there.